Sunday, September 21, 2008

It's been a long three months. Busy hasn't been the word for it. I'm a CERT volunteer with the LA Fire Department, and have been doing mad CERT things. As part of that, I got my Technician Class Ham Radio license. I'm KI6RIO. You can contact me... just as soon as I get a radio. (I can hear someone ask why get a license if I don't have a radio. Because I can use someone else's radio in an emergency.) I also headed off to Denver in August, choosing to drive rather than fly.

I've been getting a lot of fan mail! Lots of people asking for various things. I have a partner now, who does the research thing. You can send font finding queries to research(at)fontage(dot)com. (Yeah, spam fighting is a nuisance!) A lot of queries have to to with sports or movie fonts. One thing we've found is that the font is often based on an existing font, but the graphic department has tweaked it to make it custom. If we know the base font, we can pass that on, but any tweaks to match the original will need to be done by you or your favorite graphic artist. Stuff should be coming in soon. Really.

DTC font foundry issued some great fonts, then went out of business. According to sources online (nice ambiguous phrase, isnt' it?), DTC licensed fonts from URW, so I've been looking for URW equivalents. Thanks to Gene, I have one. DTC's Frugal Sans is equivalent to Frutiger 45 Light.

Jim Pearson of Sterling Court Publishing has a website, with his entire collection of fonts. After you check out his page at Fontage, check out his site. Drop on by and say Lin from Fontage sent you.

There's a new category at Fontage (are we surprised?) called Metaphysical Fonts. It includes astrological symbols, theban, heiroglyphs, moon phases, other fun fonts of like nature. If you find a font elsewhere on this site that you think belongs in Metaphysical Fonts, drop me a line.

While hunting for more metaphysical fonts, I found a wonderful yet silly font by Su Lucas called Wash.

FONTAGE HAS A GAME! Totally silly, yet addictive. No, my playing the games was not why Fontage wasn't updated for almost three months. Honest!